Health Promotion / Employee Wellness Program

Question 1

Wellness and disease risk managment

Answer 1

Question 2

Objective

Answer 2

To improve employee productivity and reduce company expenditure on health-related benefits, through:

• Employee Assistance Programs
• Health Promotion
• Rehabilitation

Question 3

Employee well-being program

Answer 3

• Personal Health Risk Screening
  
  • blood pressure
  • cholesterol
  • smoking
• HIV program
  
  • education, testing, treatment and follow-up,
  • community involvement
• Lifestyle interventions
  
  • nutrition
  • exercise
  • lifestyle choices
  • health education
• Chronic disease monitoring, treatment compliance and case management

Question 4

Employee Assistance Program

Answer 4

Aims to minimise the impact of psychosocial problems experienced by employees, through:

• early identification of troubled employees
• counselling & appropriate referral
• tight case management, and effective return to satisfactory function at work and home
• support for employees with personal problems

Question 5

EAP Services

Answer 5

• Counseling
• Dealing with concerns of everyday living such as housing and nutrition as well as those involving illness, industrial accidents, death and burial.
• Financial matters
• Workplace/sexual abuse and harassment

Question 6

Health Promotion Program

Answer 6

Aims to maximise the positive impact on employee productivity through optimal well- being and resiliency, achieved by:

• promoting healthy lifestyles and work styles
• providing educational initiatives that improve insight & self management.

Question 7

Health Promotion according to WHO

Answer 7

“…the process of enabling people to increase control over their health and its determinants, and thereby improve their health”

Question 8

Health promotion in the workplace

Answer 8

• Workers constitute a large percentage of the population
• Workers’ health is related to the health of communities
• Workplace setting is an ideal platform to reach the population (captive audience)

Question 9

Rehabilitation program

Answer 9

• The mutual adaptation of workers and their jobs by addressing physical, mental or social impediments caused by injury, disease or lifestyle.
  
  • Drug & Alcohol abuse
  • Physical rehabilitation
  • Alternative job placement